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NEUROGASTROENTEROLOGY AND MOTILITY
卷 26, 期 6, 页码 832-840出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nmo.12337
关键词
biomarker; necrotizing enterocolitis; vagal tone
资金
- Children's Miracle Network and Johnson & Johnson Health Behaviors and Quality of Life
- National Institutes of Health [NIH-DK 55530, NIH-DK 99350]
Background Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is an acute neonatal inflammatory disease which may lead to intestinal necrosis, multisystem failure, and death. Currently, NEC is diagnosed by a combination of laboratory and radiographic tests conducted a posteriori i.e., when NEC is already clinically significant. Given the acute onset and rapid progression of NEC, a non-invasive biomarker that allows early detection of patients at risk is required as a matter of urgency. We evaluated whether the high frequency (HF) component of heart rate variability (HRV), a measure of vagal efferent tonic cholinergic activity may be used as a predictive biomarker for NEC-risk before the onset of clinical disease. Methods In this prospective study, stable preterm (gestational age 28-35weeks) infants had HRV power spectra analyzed from surface electrocardiogram waveforms taken at rest on day 5-8 of life. We used regression modeling to determine the utility of HF-HRV in predicting NEC. Key Results HF-HRV power was 21.5 +/- 2.7 and 3.9 +/- 0.81ms2 in infants that remained healthy and those that later developed stage 2+ NEC, respectively (p<0.001). Nine of 70 enrolled infants developed NEC. The ROC discriminated a HF-HRV value of 4.68ms2 predictive for developing NEC with a sensitivity and specificity of 89% and 87%, and positive and negative predictive value of 50% and 98%, respectively. With predictive regression modeling, the risk (odds ratio) of developing NEC was 10 per every one SD decrease in HF-HRV. Conclusions & Inferences Our preliminary data indicate that HF-HRV may serve as a potential, non-invasive predictive biomarker of NEC-risk in NICU infants.
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